Backstage · 3 hours ago

Senior Backend Engineer - Python/Django

New York, United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

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Responsibilities

Partner with product, marketing, business intelligence, and design teams to develop new product features and enhancements

Design engineering plans to meet the requirements of the product or goal

Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Python code

Contribute to and influence the overall backend architecture decisions

Work closely with product, marketing, and customer service to translate customer feedback into successful features and tools

Collaborate with backend engineers outside your feature team to maintain shared code and infrastructure

Coordinate with frontend engineers to provide a cohesive experience

Use both technical and relational skills to lead large scale projects to completion

Collaborate, mentor, and learn with a high-performing team of engineers

Qualification

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PythonDjangoRESTful APIsPostgresSQLMySQLElasticsearchUnit testingDebuggingAgile environmentJavascriptReactProject management

Required

Proven experience building a major product or feature from scratch at scale for a large public facing web application

Advanced proficiency with Python and Django

Solid database skills in a relational database (i.e., PostgresSQL, MySQL, etc.)

Experience in developing RESTful APIs

Strong unit test and debugging skills

Experience incrementally rolling out new features, components or refactors without blocking the rest of the team, and iterating upon and maintaining live products

Strong project management skills; able to organize, adhere to process, and execute projects across disciplines and by deadline

Excellent communication skills; you can articulate clearly, thoroughly, and concisely to technical and non-technical audiences

Comfortability with the entire development life cycle (inception to release) in an Agile environment

Collaborative, engaged, and adaptable; you are comfortable joining a team with a large, mature codebase with established engineering processes

Flexible and proactive, you’re able to shift gears quickly in a fast-paced environment